Sri Lanka is paying some foreign debts with tea, rather than cash. But an abrupt ban on chemical fertilizers has hurt crop yields and tea pickers are losing hours and wages as food prices double.

Sri Lanka earned 1.43 billion U.S. dollars from tea exports in 2024, with an increase of more than 9 percent year-on-year. Tea is one of Sri Lanka's main foreign revenue generators.

Carving a path through cloud-swathed villages and centuries-old tea estates, the new long-distance Pekoe Trail gives hikers a chance to explore Sri Lanka’s quiet central highlands.

If your brew is from Sri Lanka, the process of growing tea, harvesting the leaves and producing tea bags is surprisingly labour-intensive.

The headline read: ‘India surpasses Sri Lanka to become the second largest tea exporter.’ What has happened to Sri Lankan tea known the world over as a reputed brand and labelled as ‘Ceylon Tea’?

Glenugie tea plantation workers are outraged after the CWC and NUW unions colluded with management to shut down a strike and enforce increased workloads. Two workers remain suspended for striking.

Sri Lanka's tea industry grapples with a steep wage hike, but some estate owners embrace new approaches to balance worker welfare and productivity in a bid to save the sector.

In 2015 Sri Lanka was producing 340 million kg of tea which was hampered by the Glyphosate ban fiasco. As the industry was slowly recovering from this after laws were brought in place to allow for the ...

An ABC investigation in Sri Lanka has found popular certification schemes are failing to live up to their ethical promises.

Hundreds of people from Sri Lanka's historically oppressed Malaiyaha (hill country) community held demonstrations to emphasize their basic rights as citizens of the country. “We demand that Malaiyaha ...

The backbone of the economy, Sri Lanka's tea pickers are determined to use their powerful vote to choose a president this month who will change grim working conditions for good.

Sri Lanka's tea industry grapples with a steep wage hike, but some estate owners embrace new approaches to balance worker welfare and productivity in a bid to save the sector.